Neural population coding of sound level adapts to stimulus statistics

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1684-1689

  Dean, Isabel ^a   Harper, Nicol S ^a,b   McAlpine, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL POPULATION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GUINEA PIG; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; VARIANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 28044471206     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1541     Document Type: Article

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